@boomerang,
I absolutely disagree with u.
I am an
ex-8 year old and I distinctly remember life at that age.
If I had plotted a murder (as this confessed killer did),
I certainly woud have
clearly understood what I was doing;
with equal clarity as now, well over half a century later.
I remember an incident when my cousin was home from military service.
He had a lot of silver coins and he failed to secure them overnight.
I was 5 years old. I stole them and got caught a few hours later.
My mother and his mother were saying that I did not know what I had done;
that I coud not understand. I was relieved, and quietly laffing at them
for their naive foolishness. I was obviously guilty.
I had a low opinion of their intelligence on that occasion.
I was
very surprized that thay coud be so dum.
At around that age and all other ages, the kids in the neighborhood
occasionally discussed infamous criminals; John Dillenger, Baby Face Nelson, etc.
We fully understood what their crimes were
and expressed this understanding in our conversations.
Stealing and murdering were
very simple; not at all difficult to understand.
8 years later, I considered stealing something else.
I remember, I was walking toward a bus stop, early one morning.
Then, I had an epiphany of the loathsomeness of larceny; (it was ugly),
whereupon I abandoned my nefarious plot. That stayed with me.
David
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